Outsource your marketing. See the results.
Real numbers from a business that handed its marketing to us. We’ll keep this page updated with the latest results from businesses currently working with us, giving you a transparent view of how their marketing performance develops over time.
Same Days. More Growth.
A business owner came to us with a problem we see all too often. They were the sales team, the operations manager and, somewhere at the bottom of the list, the marketing department. So, they decided to hand the marketing over to us.
Below is a comparison of two months of work, August vs September - measured across the same number of days to keep the comparison fair. Each curve shows the movement from the August figure to the September figure, with the number updating as it progresses.
Five tracked keywords. All five now in the top five.
Google average position, exact match. Lower is better.
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One team, every channel, for less than a single hire
Are you a busy business owner with no time to sit over the marketing side of the business? Hiring one specialist for every channel is slow, and it is expensive. So why hire five people when you can hire one local agency that already has the team you need?
That is the whole idea behind outsourced marketing. Instead of recruiting a search specialist, a paid ads manager, a social media person, a designer and a copywriter, and then managing all of them, you hand the work to an agency that already employs those people and runs them as one unit. You get the full skill set from day one, without the payroll, the recruitment, the training or the software bills that come with building a team in-house.
Outsourcing your marketing simply means paying an external team to plan and run some or all of your marketing, rather than doing it yourself or hiring staff to do it. It can be one channel, such as Google Ads or social media, or it can be your entire digital presence. The scope is yours to set. What does not change is that a group of people who do this every day, across many businesses, are now responsible for your results, and are measured on them.
For most small and medium businesses in Ireland this is the practical answer to a real problem. Digital marketing has split into a dozen specialisms, and no single hire is genuinely excellent at all of them. A great Meta ads buyer is rarely a great technical SEO. A brilliant designer is rarely the person you want writing conversion copy or reading a Google Ads search terms report. When you try to cover everything with one generalist employee, you get a bit of everything and mastery of nothing.
Lambourn Digital has been that outside team for Irish businesses since 2018. We plan the strategy, run the campaigns, build the pages, write the content and report the numbers, and we sit in Dublin so you can actually talk to the people doing the work. The results at the top of this page are one live example: a business that outsourced its marketing to us, measured on the same days of two months so the comparison is fair.
In-house marketing vs outsourcing
The real question is rarely “which is better” in the abstract. It is which one gets your business more customers per euro, and how quickly.
Building an in-house marketing team has genuine advantages. The people are yours, fully focused on your brand, sitting in your building and steeped in your product. For large companies with the budget to hire a head of marketing plus specialists underneath them, in-house is often the right call. The difficulty is cost and coverage. To match what a small agency does, you would need several roles, and a single full-time digital marketing specialist in Ireland typically commands a salary well upwards of €40,000 before you add employer PRSI, pension, holidays, software licences, training and the management time to keep them on track.
Outsourcing flips the model. You pay a monthly fee for an agreed scope, and behind that single fee sits a whole team, plus the tools they already licence and the experience they have built running the same campaigns for dozens of other businesses. You are not paying anyone to learn on your budget. You can scale the scope up when things are working and pause parts of it when they are not, without redundancy or a hard conversation. The trade-off is that the team is not sitting in your office, so a good agency has to work hard on communication and reporting to close that gap.
| In-house team | Outsourced to an agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Real monthly cost | Several salaries plus PRSI, pension, tools and training | One fixed fee that already covers the team and the software |
| Skills covered | Limited by who you can afford to hire | SEO, paid ads, social, content, design and email under one roof |
| Time to get going | Weeks or months to recruit, onboard and train | A team that starts inside a couple of weeks |
| Flexibility | Fixed headcount; hard to scale up or down | Scope moves up or down with your goals and season |
| Cover and continuity | One person on leave can stall a channel | A team, so nothing stops when one person is out |
| Tools and data | You buy and maintain every platform | Enterprise tools already licensed and in use |
| Best fit for | Larger firms with budget for a full department | Small and medium businesses that need results now |
Plenty of businesses land on a blend, and that is perfectly sensible. A common and effective setup is one internal marketing coordinator who owns the brand, the calendar and the relationship, with an outsourced agency doing the specialist execution behind them. You keep the ownership and the context inside the business, and you rent the depth of skill you could never justify hiring in full. Our digital marketing services are designed to slot in either as your whole marketing function or alongside an internal owner.
Start With What
Matters Most
You do not have to hand over everything at once. Online marketing outsourcing works channel by channel, and most clients start with the one that is costing them the most in missed opportunity.
Search Engine Optimisation
The long game that keeps paying. We fix the technical foundations, build the content and earn the rankings that bring customers without paying for every click.
02Google Ad Campaigns
Buy the right traffic, not just traffic. Tight keyword targeting, sharp ad copy and constant optimisation so your budget turns into enquiries, not clicks.
03Meta Ad Campaigns
Reach the people who fit your customer, not everyone. Data-driven Facebook and Instagram campaigns built to scale return, not vanity reach.
04LinkedIn Ad Campaigns
For businesses that sell to businesses. Targeted campaigns that put your offer in front of the decision makers who can actually sign it off.
05B2B Outreach
Pipeline built one conversation at a time. Researched, personalised outreach that reads like a person wrote it, because one did.
06Social Media Marketing
A consistent, on-brand presence that turns passive followers into customers, planned and posted so you never have to think “what do we post today?” again.
07Email Marketing
The channel you already own. Automated sequences and newsletters that nurture leads and bring past customers back, without you writing a word.
08Website Design & Development
The place every campaign sends people. Fast, clear, conversion-focused sites so the traffic you pay for actually turns into business.
09Website Hosting & Security
Fast, monitored and patched. Hosting that keeps the site your marketing depends on online, backed up and out of trouble.
10Brochure & Catalogue Design
Print that matches the digital. Brochures, catalogues and sales collateral designed so what you hand over carries the same weight as your website.
The advantage of keeping all of this under one roof is that the channels stop working against each other. When your SEO team, your ads team and your content team are the same team, the keyword you are paying for in Google Ads is the same keyword you are ranking for organically, the landing page is built for both, and the email follow-up matches the ad that brought someone in. Outsourcing to a single agency is not just cheaper than five hires, it is usually more effective than five disconnected ones.
For owners who wear every hat
If you run a business, you already know the trap. You are the sales team, the operations manager, the person who does the quotes and, somewhere at the bottom of the list, the marketing department. The website has not been touched in a year, the last social post was “a while ago”, and you have a vague sense that competitors are showing up in searches where you are not. It is not that you do not care about marketing. It is that there are only so many hours, and the work in front of you always wins.
This is exactly who outsourced marketing is built for. A small business almost never needs, or can justify, a full-time marketer, let alone a team of them. What it needs is for the marketing to simply happen, consistently and competently, without becoming another job the owner has to manage. When you outsource to an agency, marketing moves off your desk and onto ours. You get the strategy meeting, the monthly report and the results, and you get your evenings back.
It also fixes the consistency problem that quietly kills small-business marketing. Done in-house between other tasks, marketing happens in bursts: a flurry of posts and effort when things are quiet, then nothing for six weeks when work picks up. Search engines and social platforms reward the opposite, steady, ongoing activity. An outside team keeps the engine running whether you are flat out or not, which is why the compounding results, rankings, audience, reputation, actually accumulate instead of resetting every quarter.
Good agencies scope this to a small-business budget rather than an enterprise one. You are not signing up for a marketing department, you are renting the exact slice of it you need, and you can start with a single channel and grow from there. Our case studies are full of exactly these businesses, electricians, clinics, manufacturers, trades and local service firms. The Modern Garden Rooms and Banrach stories are good places to see what that shift produces.
Outsourcing social media and Facebook marketing
Social is the channel owners most often want to hand over first, because it is relentless, and because doing it badly is worse than not doing it at all.
Social media never stops asking for feed. It wants a post today, a story tomorrow, a reply to that comment, an idea for next week and a reaction to whatever just happened in your industry. For a busy owner that is an impossible standing commitment, and the usual result is an account that looks abandoned, which does more harm to a brand than having no account at all. Outsourcing your social media hands that relentless cycle to people whose actual job it is, so the presence stays alive, on-brand and consistent without a single evening of yours going into it.
When you outsource social media marketing to us, you are not buying “someone to post”. You get a plan tied to your business goals, a content calendar you approve, the posts produced and scheduled, the community managed, and monthly reporting on what actually moved, follower quality, engagement and, most importantly, the clicks and enquiries that came off the back of it. The point of social is not applause, it is turning attention into customers, and that is what we measure.
Paid social sits alongside it. To outsource your Facebook marketing, and Instagram with it, is to put your ad budget in the hands of a team that reads the numbers every day. The difference between a Facebook campaign that drains budget and one that prints enquiries is almost entirely in the targeting, the creative and the constant tuning, none of which a busy owner has time to do properly. Our Meta ad campaigns are built to reach the specific people who match your customer and to be optimised continually towards real return. Organic social builds the trust; paid social buys the reach; run together by one team, they compound.
Content that actually gets read and ranked
Content is the one thing every other channel depends on, and the first thing that gets dropped when an owner is busy. Your SEO needs pages worth ranking. Your ads need landing pages that convert. Your social needs something to say. Your email needs a reason to land in the inbox. All of it is content, and producing it well and often is a genuine discipline, part research, part writing, part understanding what your customers actually search for and worry about.
Content marketing outsourcing means a team that plans, writes and publishes that material for you, to a standard and a schedule you could not sustain alone. Not thin, AI-spun filler that reads like everyone else’s, but articles and pages built on real keyword research and real answers to the questions your buyers are asking. It is the same content engine behind the ranking growth you can see at the top of this page.
Because we run content beside search, ads and social rather than in a silo, everything we write has a job. A guide is built to rank for a specific search and to feed your email list. A landing page is written to match the exact ad pointing at it. A case study is made to close a deal your sales team is already working. When you outsource content to the same agency that runs your channels, you stop paying for words that sit unread and start paying for assets that move the business.
The Lambourn method, in five steps
Handing over your marketing should feel like relief, not like taking on another project. Here is the path from first call to results.
A conversation about your business
We start with where you are and where you want to be, your goals, your margins, what a good customer is worth to you. No jargon, no pressure, just working out whether outsourcing makes sense for you and what it would cover.
A clear scope and plan
You get a defined scope, which channels, what we will do, and what it costs, with transparent monthly pricing and no long lock-in. You always know exactly what you are paying for and what you should expect back.
The team gets to work
Your dedicated team, search, ads, social, content and design, starts building. Typically you are up and running within a couple of weeks, not the months an in-house hire would take.
Honest reporting, every month
You see the real numbers, the same live data you scrolled through at the top of this page, not vanity slides. We meet, we explain what moved and why, and we agree the next month’s focus together.
We scale what works
As the results build, we lean into the channels that are performing and adjust the ones that are not. Your scope grows with your business, on your terms.
Local Knowledge.
Dedicated People.
You can outsource your marketing to an offshore agency operating on the other side of the world, and plenty of businesses have, usually once. The problem is that marketing needs context.
An agency that understands the Irish market, how people here search, what a Dublin customer responds to, what the local competition is doing, will always brief better and target sharper than one running your account off a template from three time zones away. When your agency is local, you can meet the actual people doing the work, pick up the phone during your working day and get a straight answer.
Lambourn Digital is a Dublin agency, and we have been the outside marketing team for Irish businesses since 2018. When you outsource to us, you get a named team you can talk to. We build campaigns for the market you actually sell into, we report in plain English, and we treat your budget the way we would treat our own, because in a market this size, our reputation is built on whether your numbers move. The results at the top of this page are not a mock-up. They are a current client, measured like for like across two months, on the same work we would do for you.
Signs it is time to hand it over
Most owners know deep down when marketing has slipped past what they can handle. If several of these sound familiar, outsourcing is probably overdue.
- 01Marketing is always the task that slips.
It sits at the bottom of your list and only gets attention when everything else is quiet, which is never.
- 02You are guessing, not measuring.
You are not sure which of your efforts actually bring customers, because nobody has the time to track it properly.
- 03Competitors keep showing up where you do not.
They are in the searches, the feeds and the ads you know you should be in.
- 04You tried one hire and it was not enough.
A single marketer or a junior cannot be strong at SEO, ads, social, content and design all at once, and you felt the gaps.
- 05Your channels do not talk to each other.
A freelancer here, a cousin doing the website there, you posting when you remember, and none of it joined up.
- 06You want to grow but cannot add the headcount.
You need more marketing firepower than you can justify hiring for.
If you recognised your business in that list, the good news is that outsourcing solves all of them at once, without a recruitment process.
